Improvement in billiard-tables



s. H. wALn|E.`

Billiard-Tables. No. 144,716. Patented N0v.`1s4,1873.

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sAMUEL E. wALDrE, 0E BELMONT, TExAs.

IMPRovEMENT IN BILLIARD-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,71. dated November 18, 1873; application filed August 4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL ILWALDIE, of Belmont, in the county of Gonzales and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Billiard-Table, of which the following is a speciication:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a top view of my improved combination of billiard and Jenny-Lind7 table; and Fig. 2 a vertical transverse section of the same on the line c c, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to construct a billiard-table, in combination with a Jenny- Lind table, so that either game may be played thereon, to the great convenience of parties in smaller places, without additional expense. My invention consists in providing the billiardtables with a false bar at one end, which covers the apertures for the balls used in the soble, of the usual construction, which is provided at one end with a false bar, B, which is placed, by means of lugs a, into horizontal recesses b of the outer bar C of the billiard-table. The inside face of the bar B is cushioned in the usual manner, its under side, which rests on the bed of the billiard-table, being painted with the numbers of the respective holes of the Jenny-Lind table. The apertures d for the balls are arranged immediately below the false bar B, so as to be covered by it when in position for playing at billiards. Vertical recesses b of bar C serve for arranging false bar B, by`

lugs a, in an upright position, as head-board, exposing thereby the apertures d and their corresponding numbers, and permitting the use of table A as a Jenny-Lind table.

By the simple method of changing the false bar into the head-board, and vice versa, the table is easily transformed to the use intended, and thereby its practicability enhanced with but little if any additional expense.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters `Patent- 1. In combination with billiard-table A, having apertures d and outer bar C, the falsebar B with lugs a, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The outer bar C having horizontal and vertical recesses b for adjusting false bar` as billard-cushion or head-board, as specified.

SAMUEL H. WALDIE.

Witnesses:

J. G. HARGRAVE, J. S. TADLOOK. 

